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In defense of Pandora, it is worth re-reading, at the very least because it has so many of the notorious Lupine tropes. - mythological themes; subversion thereof - a lamed man, wi…
10 Oct 2008, 17:08
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Thrax, the name of the city to which Palaemon exiles Severian, is also the Latin name for Thrace. Alice Turner mentioned this in her mapping of the geography of Urth onto Earth (h…
11 Jul 2008, 14:23
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Aquaster, actually. Jung apparently noodled with the Paracelsan idea of the aquaster. The PDF abstract of Jung's collected works found at the link below has this: The Iliast…
27 Nov 2007, 19:00
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Irene Gallo posted a few more examples of the drawings for PF on her blog: http://igallo.blogspot.com/2007/09/in-honor-of-national-talk-like- pirate.html…
19 Sep 2007, 18:29
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Caveat lector: spoilers for Peace below. The elm tree that falls in the first line of Peace is planted on the grave of Alden Dennis Weer, the book's narrator. As the Sergeant …
06 Jun 2007, 15:39
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"The Distant Suns of Gene Wolfe", by John Farrell, is finally available in the online archives of First Things magazine. Farrell makes the common mistake of identifying Jesus wi…
28 May 2007, 18:28
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Here's a quote from James Jordan's interview with Wolfe a while back: http://mysite.verizon.net/~vze2tmhh/wolfejbj.html Jordan: [T]here was a book a few years age by a chemist w…
24 May 2007, 23:13
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